This museum is essentially
dedicated to the formative period of the computer
science and industry and more peculiarly to its French contribution. That
period will end around year 2000 by the adoption of globalized standards
brought in by a small number of contributors, generally
non-Europeans.

We attempted to handle those systems objectively,
without the hype of some contemporary descriptions that were targeting
sales promotion, while, however, paying respect to all engineers and other
responsible who brought those systems to life.

The descriptions hereunder will allow, hopefully,
visitors who were users to better understand what those systems had
under the hood.

Hereunder items not associated to hyperlinks have
not yet been documented and are waiting for your contributions. Some exist
only in French and links exist only in the left
column.

France software houses developed only a few software
products that were machine independent. French service companies have
produced more often systems specific to a customer than software
sold for several computers or to multiple clients.

Prologue

LTR

LSE

PROLOG

ADA

Pacbase

Dialog

Mistral

Textor

CATIA

Compilers developed in France for
international languages (FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL,
etc...)